Planning your wedding can be an extremely stressful, but an absolutely rewarding and gratifying experience. Now that you have the perfect man and a gloriously fashionable wedding dress, you can start worrying about all the bridal accessories you need to complete your overall look.

Although bridal magazines have a zillion items listed under “bridal accessories,” keep in mind that you only need to purchase the essentials or the items that are relevant to you.

No two weddings are ever truly and completely alike, and brides, too, have differing needs and varying wedding priorities. Heading to a bridal boutique without knowing the exact items you need for your wedding may lead to an expensive and mostly unnecessary shopping-spree.

To avoid unnecessary purchases while you search for your bridal accessories, we’re providing you with a list of some of the most common items and garments on almost every bride’s wedding accessory list.

Bridal Accessory Must-Haves

Bridal Shoes: Right after you pick the perfect dress shape and design, you have to find the perfect footwear to complement your wedding attire. Bridal shoes are arguably the most important item on your list of bridal accessories, unless you plan on going barefoot for your beach wedding.

Your choice of shoes can make or break your entire outfit. When picking out your bridal shoes, make sure your shoes match your dress. We’re not just talking about your shoe-color; we’re also referring to fabric and heel height.

Bridal Lingerie: You may be wearing white on the outside, but isn’t sexy red or black bridal lingerie under pristine and traditional clothing the perfect way to enhance excitement before your wedding night? Bridal lingerie come in many different designs, colors and styles. Pick bridal lingerie that provide enough wedding dress support, while still making you look and feel deliciously desirable.

Consider this the perfect wedding night surprise for your lucky husband.

Bridal Purse or Handbag: Bridal purses are different from those everyday handbags you carry to work. They contain a lot less makeup and absolutely no useless junk. Use your bridal purse or handbag to store your lipstick, an extra tampon and compact powder for emergencies and quick touch-ups.

If you’ve had your wedding dress custom made, you can ask your seamstress to create a bridal purse from your gown’s extra fabric.

For more appeal, you can have your tiny bridal purse or handbag personalized with the date of your wedding, your name and your groom’s name embroidered on the fabric.

Wedding Money Bags: Although your bridal purse can act as an efficient wedding money bag, you could purchase a separate bag to store all the money given to you during the Dollar Dance.

Money bags come in different styles and designs. Satin money bags are extremely popular with modern brides. If you’re going for a wedding money bag with detailing, just make sure the bag complements your entire outfit.

Hair Ornaments or Headpiece: Whether you’re wearing a veil or leaving your head bare, wedding hair ornaments and headpieces can be the perfect way to add some sparkle to your appearance and to emphasize a particularly ornate and intricate wedding hairstyle.

Go for hair pins, tiaras or even a lovely hat; just make sure your headpiece won’t overpower your delicate features and your bridal attire.

Jewelry: There are some rules you need to follow when it comes to bridal or wedding jewelry. The first rule is to go for simple jewelry when wearing highly-embellished gowns or veils.

Next, wear sparkling and intricate jewelry with simple gowns to add glitter and sparkle to your outfit.

Lastly, make sure your jewelry choice matches your wedding band and the rest of your attire; this includes metal and jewelry color.

Petticoats: If you’re wearing a sleek gown, then you certainly won’t need a petticoat. The petticoat, also known as the underskirt, helps your gown retain its proper shape. The petticoat is a must if you’re wearing an A-Line wedding dress or a ball gown.

There are some wedding dresses with built-in petticoats to help a dress retain its original shape. To avoid making a useless purchase, consult your seamstress or the bridal boutique owner over whether you’ll need a petticoat for your gown or not.

Wedding Bouquet: Definitely one of the most important bridal accessories you’ll need, the wedding bouquet refers to the flowers you carry while you walk down the aisle. Although you can always forgo having a bouquet of precious blooms, consider how your wedding bouquet can be the perfect way to introduce color to your otherwise drab and dull outfit.

Wedding Garter: Whether you’re going for a traditional wedding or not, the wedding garter is the perfect way to add “something blue” to your outfit inconspicuously. Remember, the wedding garter is hidden underneath the voluminous fabric of your gown only to be revealed during the garter toss at the wedding reception.

Your wedding garter need not be completely blue, in fact, some blue accents or a blue ribbon will do.

Wedding Gloves: Wedding gloves are a great way to keep your fingers warm during winter weddings. Whether you’re being traditional and demure or you’re simply channeling old world glamor with your satin opera gloves, these gloves are a perfectly elegant addition to any formal wedding dress.

Wedding Handkerchiefs: Whether you’re buying embroidered and fancy wedding handkerchiefs as souvenirs for the guests, or you’re heading down the aisle carrying a lacy handkerchief to wipe away your tears of joy, you’ll find numerous designs of intricate and lovely wedding handkerchiefs in bridal boutiques and online stores.

Wedding Tiara: Feel and look like the princess bride you truly are with a lovely wedding tiara sitting atop your head. Wedding tiaras come in many different colors and designs. Consider jewelry metal color and gown embellishments when picking out your wedding tiara.

Wedding Veil: A traditional wedding is not complete without the wedding veil. Wedding veils come in different designs and lengths. Some wedding veils have intricate and heavy embroidery that is perfect for simple and unadorned wedding gowns.

If you’re wearing a lavish wedding gown, refrain from purchasing a heavily embellished wedding veil since a long veil will cover the entire back and train of your dress.

Choose your bridal accessories wisely and keep your budget in mind as you make your bridal accessory purchases. These accessories need not be designer or extremely costly; after all, you’ll be using these accessories for this one special occasion.

By: Dennis Paguio

It’s good for you, as a bride to be, to know some things that will help you choosing the right flowers, form or aspect of your bridal bouquet. Thus you can tell the florist what your expectations are respecting the bouquet or you will actually make your bridal bouquet by yourself.
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There are some advices for you to make a bridal bouquet:

* The bridal bouquet has to be easy to hold

* The bouquet’s height does not have more than 10-15 centimeters, so it will not cover the bride.

* The bouquet has to follow the lines of the bride’s body and not to exceed it.

* Not to be seen the wire with whom you tied the flowers into the bouquet and take care that the wire’s ends will not hurt the bride’s hands (that’s for the wires are flexed and filled it through the stems).

* The stems not to have awn.

* The bouquet has not to blot the bride dress (for example, the lily’s pollen).

* The bridal bouquet has to hold out and to be fresh for the entire wedding day.

* The green material has not to smell badly and that for you will not use the Tagetes (a species of Chrysanthemum ).

There are many types of bridal bouquet appropriate to each need or fitting special bride: the round, flowing, irregular bouquets.

The round bouquet is made from one single type of flower or many types, but it has to be harmonious by colors and forms. respecting the different forms of flowers, the biggest has to be the central one. This bridal bouquet fits a short youthful wedding dress and it’s not appropriate to a stocky bride, because this form emphasizes the imperfections of the bride. The small bouquet can be made by flowers like freesia, hyacinth, daisy, mini rose.

The folowing bouquet seams like a tear. Above you’ll put the noble, ponderous and the biggest or full-blown flowers and flowing effect comes from the flowers with a long stem (like the roses) and those with a tenuous and flexible stem. Those flowers are tied with wires and could be the punks, the fragile flowers like the orchids. This bridal bouquet is appropriate to each bride whatever the age is and we recommend it to the low or the pregnant brides.

The irregular bridal bouquet is made by the prevailing character flowers. It’s a modern type which puts to the proof your imagination, your common sense. This is a combination of all types presented before. It’s important the asymmetry and you can use every ornamental elements or materials.

For a bridal bouquet, you can use every flower you want, even the sunflower or immortal and field flowers, just to be in the same air and atmosphere of the wedding.

The bridal bouquet has to be very resistant, because the bride is carrying it all over and also there is the practice of throwing the bouquet. Therefore there are some special techniques of clenching the flowers. They could be knotted, wired or stick.

The most popular technique of making a bridal bouquet is that in which the florist uses a purchased bouquet holder. Bouquet holders are usually made of white plastic, are cone-shaped and have an attached handle. They come with floral foam already inserted into the cone.

There are a few steps for you to make your own bridal bouquet:

1. Choose the flowers that you will use (we recommend that the flowers from the bridal bouquet were bride’s favorites and will complement both the wedding colors and any other floral arrangements planned).

2. Keep the flowers into water and, while are you using them, maintain the flower up, thus the hydration process will deploy.

3. Place the bouquet holder upside down on the surface of a large bowl of water. Hold on to the handle and let the holder gradually sink to the bottom of the bowl. This will saturate the foam. Remove the bouquet holder from the water and dry the exterior.

4. Begin the placement of the flowers from the top of the holder. The flower’s stem could be as short as you need. Therefore you have to determine how much of the stem you’d like to have above the foam, and then cut the stem at a very sharp angle 1 1/2 to 2 inches below that point. If you want to rearrange an inserted flower, remove the flower, cut the stem once more and reinsert it in a different spot in the foam.

5. Wire every stem before sticking in the foam of the holder. The wire will pass through the foam and it has to be bended and knotted by the holder, for the best resistance. 6. To create a cascade effect, you have to insert various lengths of greenery such as ivy or fern at the bottom of the bouquet holder or let the stems of the flowers to be long and wire them by the plastic part of the holder. For a modern bouquet you can use an wool or silk material, even pieces of gunny.

7. You need to cover the holder with aspidistra’s leafs or cut stems or you can cover it with a purchased silk or tul material. A special bridal bouquet, a modern one, could be decorated by a wool material, especially if the flowers were field‘s ones or the wedding took place into a rustic space or outside.

Use a 2-inch-wide silk or satin ribbon in a color that complements the wedding colors. If the bride prefer, use some artifices: use a combination of different or complementary ribbon’s colors. Add a pearl spray or two as well. You can also use one or two flowing wired pearls or one warm colored butterfly.

By: Aura Angheliu

There are many bridal magazines in Michigan. The articles and vendors provided in these resources can prove to be invaluable to brides when searching for Michigan wedding vendors. Besides being a great source of references for Michigan wedding professionals, Michigan wedding magazines give brides insight into wedding highlights. These articles also give great ideas for wedding planning and event organization.

Michigan Bridal Magazines

One popular resource for the best in wedding reception and ceremony tips is the Perfect Wedding Guide of Detroit Michigan. The Perfect Wedding Guide gives brides great wedding tips for current trends with wedding fashion and planning advice. They standout when you mention Michigan bridal magazines. The reason for this is that whether your question is about a sample wedding budget or your honeymoon plans, all your answer may lie in the Perfect Wedding Guide.

Michigan Wedding Magazines

Another great place that a bride will go to for some local scoop on Michigan wedding vendors is the Premier Bride of Detroit Michigan. They say that your dream wedding starts here. Just as the Perfect Wedding Guide, the Premier Bride offers contest where those that register can win prizes. For those that do not know, when you register for a contest you may be added to a list. These lead lists are provided to those that advertise with the Michigan Wedding Magazines (Michigan DJ, Florists, Officiants, Videographers, Planners, Caterers… etc.) If you do not want to be added to any list and receive TONS of e-mails, then simply do not register. Once again, the Premier Bride is a great starting point for gaining some common ground and both what you and your fiance want.

Magazines in Michigan for Brides

I just list two of the most common magazines in Michigan for brides above. Both the Premier Bride and Perfect Wedding Guide will help relieve some of the common stresses that coincide with wedding reception and ceremony planning. My best recommendation is to use more than one resource when sorting through the information to help determine your decision. Sometimes articles and references can be biased, so take any words of wisdom with a grain of salt.

Remember, this is your one wedding and the most important thing to remember, its the brides way or the highway!

By: Robert Reno